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...National Broadcasting Co., Radio Corp. of America's broadcasting chain, were radio addicts; interested in his reason for resigning were cinemaddicts. Mr. Aylesworth attributed his resignation to press of work as chairman of Radio-Keith-Orpheum. Last year Floyd Bostwick Odium's Atla: Corp. and Lehman Bros, bought working control of RKO from RCA (TIME, Oct 21), soon followed this step by installing dapper Leo Spitz as RKO president (TIME Nov. 18). At the same time, RKO's President Aylesworth became RKO's Chairman Aylesworth, and RKO's Chairman David Sarnoff moved out. Observer thought...
...Warner Bros, officials describe the British censors as "unpredictable," but they are entirely consistent. Respect-worthy things, such as ministers and officers, must be respected, and people must not be upset or told too much. Observers last week thought Lord Tyrrell as a censor would be tolerant of social and sexual themes, intolerant of political themes. Actually he will look at comparatively few pictures. The chief work of censorship will be carried on as usual by the Board's elderly secretary, J. Brooke Wilkinson...
...eyes at the Factor lineup. She went West, bought a cosmetic company, gave a great many parties. A second rival group are the Westmores, four brothers of a wig maker once associated with Max Factor, who have exclusive rights to the make-up departments of RKO, Paramount and Warner Bros, and have opened a Hollywood salon. But in the three-cornered battle Factor still wields the most potent weapon, star endorsements...
Thanks a Million. To get Dick Powell for the lead in this topical, pell-mell musical cinema. Producer Zanuck traded Fredric March to Warner Bros, for Anthony Adverse. A troupe of entertainers, stuck in a small town on a rainy night, strangle into a political rally to get dry and become part of the election machinery when Troupe Manager Fred Allen sells the candidate for Governor the idea of spicing up his speeches with songs by the Yacht Club Boys, Rubinoffs fiddling. Before long Dick Powell wins the party nomination, campaigns successfully with speeches guaranteed not to last more than...
...Bryan Owen, collects Italian primitives, plays occasionally on the Greentree and Sands Point polo teams with Tommy Hitchcock. John Milton Hancock, long-distance runner at the University of North Dakota, Wartime Naval Commander and supply-purchaser, hunts mountain sheep in British Columbia. He specializes in the affairs of Lehman Bros, clients such as Sears. Loose-Wiles, Jewel Tea, other national merchandise distributors. Mr. Hancock rehabilitated Jewel when the chainstore seemed headed for the rocks. Paul Mazur looks after department store clients-Gimbels, Hahn's, Associated Dry Goods. He wrote The Crisis and Some Ways Out (1931), other economic books...